#posh goes peak & OCA community curation collaboration
Hey everyone, some news from the @ocd team today.
#posh
We started the #posh (proof of sharing) initiative initially to assist Steemit with traffic and in turn ad revenue generation in hopes it would help them during the bear market and becoming less dependent on dumping Steem. With the recent changes of @justinsunsteemit acquiring @steemit we believe this help is not needed as much anymore and will from now on be encouraging users to share their posts from beta./steempeak.com instead. This will be a gradual change, we will still give higher curation on posts with the #posh link in the comment section no matter the front-end they share from but will be reminding them to switch over to steempeak.com or another independent front-end of their choosing.
As you can probably tell, this is also a move to support the projects that have the Steem blockchain in their best interest but at the same time we are happy to encourage Steempeak sharing as the front-end is amazing and the people running it are some of the most talented and hardworking Steemians we have here today. I'd encourage anyone who hasn't tested out Steempeak yet or their beta site to test it out!
Another thing to mention about SteemPeak which is great for new traffic stumbling upon a shared post is that they offer guest accounts which allow signups from Facebook/Gmail/Github and will enable more functions in the near future until users get their Steem account.
I'll be mentioning another cool feature from beta.steempeak.com at the end of the post that has to do with the collab announcement, so make sure to check it out if you're not sure about steempeak yet. ;)
OCA Collab
Effective immediately we are going to start collaborating with @midlet's community OnChainArt and curate posts there as well. @midlet has joined the OCD Curation team and will be choosing great Art posts from his community to nominate them for curation on the @ocd daily compilation posts. Other than that we will also keep an eye on the community to curate steempeak posts that are shared on Twitter through the #posh initiative like usual. We want to assist other more niche original content communities as well and other than the Steem Gaming Community and SteemDevs Community this will be the next one we will be collaborating with to get it some extra curation!
(screenshot of OCA from beta.steempeak.com)
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Steempeak Cross-posting feature
As we've mentioned in the past, we understand our community is pretty general and broad with any Original Content being accepted and curated, this is what OCD has always been curating but our goal was never to hog up all posts from other smaller communities and we were hoping for a cross-posting feature.
The good news is that Steempeak has already made this possible!
On their beta site you can now cross-post onto other communities!
At the end of a post, you simply click the three dots, then "crosspost in..." and choose a community and also add a note along with the cross-post if you like. I've been told what this does is it generates a new post of the person sharing with 90% of beneficiaries going to the original creator of the post, 5% going to the sharer and 5% going to the community. To prevent abuse communities can mute posts (and downvote if you feel like it).
This sounds really amazing in my opinion and I can't wait to try it out. I think it will help get posts seen by more people, get the author more rewards and bring the niche communities more traffic and rewards when used correctly. Big thank you to Steempeak for already implementing something like this. Maybe Sun bought the wrong front-end? ;)
Let me know what you think of these changes and what you think of the cross-posting feature of @steempeak! (also don't forget to vote for their witness if you haven't yet!)
@steempeak is awesome. Filled with talented people as you said. I've been using it for a good while now. Great to have communities also in Steempeak beta. I better start using that too, affecting immediately. And it's a really good thing that OCD curation team is also supporting the smaller communities. Or OCA at least for starters.
Thank you @OCD and @steempeak for all your hard work and extremely quick moves. I appreciate these two qualities very much.
Agreed Steempeak is awesome. It's some individual users who aren't.
That said I'm going to start sharing steempeak links instead of steemit links. I am supporting the steempeak proposal and encourage others to as well.
Steem is not Tron, Steemit is Tron.
I have a feeling that those who do not rage quit or just power down quietly, those who still are here and continue doing things like before or perhaps more intensively, are going to be an even tighter community than ever. At least that's what I hope.
I feel the same way. Steem is still great and we will be rewarded. I didn't abandon at 12cents I'm not abandoning now. However I don't blame people for hitting the powerdown button. Hopefully they stop if after a week or so and join the everlasting fun on steem (best accessed using steempeak)
I like this post a lot! Especially that cross-posting feature! Good stuff @acidyo. I am glad to see that @SteemPeak is getting the sort of attention it deserves.
Fun that you found the feature we're testing the last couple of days. We'll try to get a post about it asap
Also we're flattered about the #posh initiative ... let us know if there are any features that can help it.
@SteemPeak The ability to auto-post newly posted material to Twitter would be immensely helpful.
Of course it would also be nice to be able to set predefined titles and hashtags for the auto-posting as well.
Something like how https://Dlvr.it does it but since it could be doing it directly from the SteemPeak front-end there is obviously no need for an RSS but hey RSS feeds are handy also!
Ahh steempeak, my favourite front end because all I have to do is wait for a bit and whatever feature I happened to think "this would be so cool if..." will magically appear eventually like someone heard me XD
And yay for OCD/OCA collab, this made me smile externally ^_^ (usdually when I read happy things like this I still only smile internally XP)
It's a great idea to cross-message! I have to take my test! Thanks!
I see I don't have any "crosspost in..." option. 😕
Were you on beta.steempeak.com?
I was on SteemPeak.com 🤦🏻♀️I'm still a little confused about all the front-ends, but I'm checking them out. Thanks for your help. I appreciate it!👍
Oh those are some cool features on Steempeak. I will work on getting into the habit of using it :). Us old folks take a while to get used to change LOL.
Honestly there's so much changes coming at us at once and constantly something new happening I think even younger people are getting confused. I'm taking a lot of time to carefully decide on how to handle all these new things moving forward so it'll be as fair and scalable as possible.
You are doing a great job in my opinion. Many interesting changes for sure!! There is certainly a lot to navigate and of course it is hard to see how things will unfold. Time will tell. Keep doing what you do, it is much appreciated.
That's a nice collaboration. Honestly, liking the @posh initiative ever since it started. J.Sun, might see much more things then just Steemit by us doing the Twitter initiative.
While thanks for the cross posting update, haven't tried it yet but will try it out. Changed some witness votes today as well (Not active ones).
Woah, didn't notice the steempeak(beta) crossposting option, sounds awesome!
Yeah, they're really fast. :D had to test it out just now by cross-posting it to the OCA community!
I voted for @steempeak. It's a super modern platform with many options. I have not tried cross-publishing but I will start trying. It's a new learning for me. Excellent informative post @acidyo
This seems neat 5% is about right. Hopefully there is a limit though. At some point it will definitely become spammy.
I guess if bots were to start spamming it, even in the right communities, the upvoter can decide to go reward the original post instead if he knows the account is a bot/spammer so they don't get the 5% or might even get a downvote. :)
You can just mute that account from posting in your community.
Thats a great idea @midlet. I think it important that all community Admin's are aware of this to prevent Bot abuse. Perhaps you could write a brief post about doing this to send to all community admin's?
Yeah I'll definitely consider a downvote to blacklisted people doing this with my content. Or people doing it excessively with their own content.
It also seems to fool the autovote programs, lol